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Volunteers sought for big-time Little League team

Geoff Dewitt, who’s in the process of obtaining  a charter to form a Little League team representing Americans in southeast Germany with the goal of playing for German national and European regional titles and Europe's  berth at the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., is looking for volunteers to serve on the board of directors and other positions.

Dewitt’s charter is to cover the communities of Ansbach, Bamberg, Grafenwoehr, Hohenfels and Vilseck, he wrote in a Tuesday email, and his plan is to organize a competitive team for year-round play against German teams and other American community teams. The team would be the equivalent of the Kaiserslautern Military Community and Stuttgart all-stars who annually compete in the Germany Little League tournament which sends its champion to the European Regional tournament at Little League's European headquarters in Kutno. Poland. 

Dewitt said the team plans to practice Tuesdays in Grafenwoehr and Thursdays in Vilseck, beginning immediately. Practice time at each location is 5:30-7 p.m., he wrote.

Anyone interested in volunteering or helping in any way may contact Dewitt at sloopyeod@googlemail.com or by telephone at German civ. 0162-1625322.
 

 

 

 

 

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Gregory Broome is an experienced and accomplished community sports journalist. Officially a native of Iowa, Broome grew up a Department of Defense dependent at sites all over the United States and Germany.


He finally settled in Florida, earning a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Central Florida.

Broome began his journalism career in in 2004 as a sports writer for the Ocala Star-Banner in Ocala, Fla., covering high school, college and community sports and earning recognition for his work from the Florida Press Club. In 2009 Broome was named the first sports information director at College of Central Florida, an NJCAA member school, where he launched the program's website and social media pages and revamped its promotional and game-day operations.

Broome joined Stars and Stripes in October of 2012.


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